How to: Normalize your audio for YouTube | Premiere Pro 2022

How to: Normalize your audio for YouTube | Premiere Pro 2022

Step 1:

Right click the vocal audio track, and select “Audio Gain” –

**Make sure you are right clicking the audio tracks and adjusting the audio gain for every clip.

Step 2:

Select the “Normalize all peaks to: 0db” option

**** Additionally using limiters will help, on your vocal tracks, on your music tracks, and on your master track

Recommended Limiter settings:

Master Track

Maximum Amplitude: -2db

Input Boost: 4db

* additional effects

Multiband compressor: can make the mix sound more full and together, but not necessary

Background Music Track

Maximum Amplitude: -25db

Input Boost: 4db

* additional effects

Lowpass filter: Cutoff – 1000hz to 5000hz

Music Track

Maximum Amplitude: -2db

Input Boost: 0db

Vocal Track

Maximum Amplitude: -2db

Input Boost: 4db

* additional effects

Denoise: 5%

Dereverb: 5%

This video has some helpful tips as well, but -12db compression is for film, while commercial television/youtube is compressed closer to -2db, so use the recommended settings listed above for YouTube videos:

Limiters are DOPE! Adobe Premiere Pro 2020

 

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